As a connoisseur of follow-up’s value, I’m not surprised. The key, however, is that it involves another person besides me. It’s one thing to keep a log each night of the same questions and fill in the answers. That, to me, is not quite follow-up. It’s more like entering data in a diary—and considerably less likely to breed ongoing success. (How many of us have started a diary but soon abandoned it?) But injecting Jim into the mix—a friendly sympathetic human being whom, on the one hand, I do not want to disappoint (that’s human nature) and who, on the other hand, provides constant
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